Moxon rejoined Yorkshire earlier this year

The England and Wales Cricket Board ruled the New Road match can be restaged at the end of July after it was abandoned without a ball bowled.

"It was a flawed decision and creates a precedent, opening the floodgates for future situations deemed 'extreme circumstances'," Lancashire said.

"We therefore urge the ECB to reconsider this decision."

Interview: Yorkshire director of cricket Martyn Moxon

Worcestershire did not want to take the match away from New Road, which had been hit by severe flooding, and declined Kent's request to move it to Kidderminster or Beckenham.

How are we going to claw back the lost time we've had? Yorkshire's Martyn Moxon

The ECB's decision to allow a replay at the end of July infuriated Yorkshire, who drew their Roses match with Lancashire this week after the first two days were lost to the weather.

Tykes coach Martyn Moxon said: "It's an absolute disgrace. The precedent is a very dangerous one and I would be very surprised if everyone else in the country is not as upset and disappointed as I am.

"We've lost half of our last two Championship games to rain. Do we get the chance to replay those two days in both those games?

"We've had to suffer the consequences of the weather. How are we going to claw back the lost time we've had?

"It is so tight in the Championship - every point counts. The ECB should have punished Worcestershire, not the rest of us."

Surrey chief executive Paul Sheldon has backed the ECB's decision.

To effectively get two bites of the cherry sets a bit of a precedent Lancashire's Mike Watkinson

But Lancashire manager Mike Watkinson says the New Road game should not be regarded as a special case.

"We have just played a Championship game in which we have lost the first two days of the match. We expected to play but the ground was under water," he said.

"We got on in the third day in pretty unfit conditions because we needed to get moving. If we had sat around for the remainder of that game and didn't get moving, would we get a replay?

"Once a date has been set for a game and you turn up with the intention of playing, then you put your kit in the dressing room and you look forward to playing.

"If conditions aren't fit then you turn up the next day still looking forward to playing and if the conditions still aren't fit then that is it - you have had your chance of playing.

"If they had turned round a week before and said 'we have no chance because we have had unforeseen circumstances, let's re-arrange', then you can understand it. But to actually turn up and effectively get two bites of the cherry sets a bit of a precedent."